Salma Hayek 'Felt Ashamed' For Delaying Her Weinstein Story

Tamara Craig

Eventually, however, Hayek penned an op-ed in December for the New York Times where she detailed Weinstein's alleged continual harassment, which began after Weinstein's former company Miramax produced "Frida", Hayek's 2002 film about famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which she produced and starred in.

She has previously revealed in the NY times that Weinstein, who is accused of raping, sexually abusing and harassing dozens of actresses, once threatened to kill her and had pressured her into filming a nude sex scene with a female co-star.

"I have my own experiences that have come back to me very vividly, and I find it really hard to sleep, hard to think, hard to communicate a lot of the feelings that I've been having about anxiety, honest, the guilt for not speaking up earlier", she said. I felt like my pain was so small [compared to others].

It was an emotional piece for Hayek to scribe - so emotional, she nearly didn't write it! "He claimed that my name as an actress was not big enough and that I was incompetent as a producer", Hayek wrote, after sharing the legal struggle she entered with Weinstein following his attempts to remove her from the film. "I started crying because (I had PTSD) (post-traumatic stress disorder)".

"Then I felt ashamed", she continued. I was supporting women for two decades but I couldn't do this... News, "Mr. Weinstein regards Salma Hayek as a first-class actress and cast her in several of his movies".

In a conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo Theater on Wednesday night, Hayek, 51, told the TV personality that Weinstein told the film's director, Julie Taymor: "I am going to break the kneecaps of that 'C-word'". The people closest to Harvey basically went "Yeah, I can see that, he's always been a colossal dickhead".

Salma Hayek shocked fans when she revealed that she was on the long list of celebrities and famous actresses who fell victim toHarvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct. "[Weinstein] was not the first guy to do this to me", she said. He never raped me (but the harassment) was not one or two occasions. I went, 'Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. "He told me, 'I'm going to kill you'". "I thought of the shame (sic)".

But the actress also expressed that it was in part because she felt her "pain was so small compared to all the other stories", and revisiting her experience of harassment was so painful. I thought, "There's no point for me to talk because it happens to everyone"'. "It's important to take responsibility for the things we do to others, but we must stop apologizing for being attacked and we must move into a place where you can actually have a conversation".

Here's the interesting part about Harvey Weinstein and all these allegations.

Salma Hayek and Oprah speak onstage during "Oprah's Super Soul Conversations" at The Apollo Theater on February 7, 2018 in NY.

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